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Improvements in nutrition and diversified rural livelihoods key to Indonesia’s quest for high income status
Indonesia can achieve its goal of achieving high income status but in order to do so the country must first create greater access to more nutritious foods and invest in human capital, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said today.
Indonesia’s economy has been growing at a steady pace for many...
Indonesia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
FAO warns that protecting agriculture from extreme weather and climate change must become a priority in Asia and the Pacific
While climate change and extreme weather events are impacting the environment in many ways, agriculture and food production in Asia and the Pacific are among those hardest hit and must be first in line to defend, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced today.
Droughts, floods and other natural disasters...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
FAO in Asia-Pacific re-affirms close collaboration with Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on regional technical cooperation
Bangkok, Thailand, FAO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, and representatives from Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), today re-affirmed their close collaboration on technical cooperation work in the region during an annual review of the programme.
The annual review process was “a very valuable occasion that will...
Japan
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
FAO helps strengthen community-based fisheries for the Pacific
FAO has been recently approved two projects to strengthen community-fisheries in Tonga and Samoa. The aim of the projects is to strengthen the technical capacity for both countries to improve and streamline their community-based fisheries management programmes.
These programmes play an integral role in ensuring the effective management of coastal fisheries...
Samoa
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Drought hit atolls to receive help
With the effects of climate change and extreme weather events disproportionately affecting people in the Pacific, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with the support of the Marshall Islands government is providing emergency aid to some of the Marshall Islands remote atolls hit hardest by drought.
In...
Marshall Islands
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Informe
The regional assessment report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Asia and the Pacific
Within the scope outlined in the generic scoping report for the regional and subregional assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services (decision IPBES-3/1, annex III), particular challenges found across the Asia-Pacific region include climate change (particularly sea-level rise, increased intensity of extreme storm events, ocean acidification and glacier retreat), population growth,...
2018 - IPBES
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Integrated Shed Houses for Topical Farming
Champasack, Laos – In recent years, the shed house was introduced to farmers as an alternative technology for growing vegetables during rainy season because the shed house is roofed with transparent plastic. However, due to the use of plastic, the temperature in the house increases, which is not suitable for...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2018 - Lao Farmer Network (LFN)
Artículo
The Value Chain Way of Thinking
Pacific Islands – Today, if you talk to farmers’ organisations, government agricultural officers or agricultural development practitioners in the Pacific, there is a good chance you are going to hear them talking about value chains. In fact, it is likely that you will also hear farmers, exporters, and agro-processors also...
2018 - Pacific Island Farmers Organisation Network (PIFON)
Artículo de boletín informativo
Sri Lanka: Outside the net
The lack of recognition by the state continues to cast women in fishing outside the net in Sri Lanka. While increasingly, around the globe, women’s participation in fisheries is being captured in government statistical records, the data on active fishers compiled by the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Sri...
Sri Lanka
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Artículo de boletín informativo
India: Ships of hope
Innovative boat clinics bring health and hope to thousands of men, women and children, among India’s poorest, who live along the mighty Brahmaputra river. As the monsoon rages, floodwaters ravage the remote island of Lamba Sapori in Dhemaji district in the northeastern state of Assam in India. Trapped in their waterlogged...
India
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Artículo de boletín informativo
Profile: Fish, ponds and empowered lives - Under Suman Singh’s leadership, women in Madhubani, India
Under Suman Singh’s leadership, women in Madhubani, India, gain greater control over their lives. Women in inland fisheries in the Madhubani district of Bihar, India, started organizing way back in the year 1999, first registering a district level fisherwomen’s cooperative, and then cooperatives at the block or sub-district level throughout Madhubani....
India
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Artículo de revista especializada
Using comparative historical analysis to compensate shortcomings of crosssectional methods in explaining causal mechanisms: Lessons from a study of rice farmers in Vietnam
The benefits of mixed methods are well recognised. Using mixed methods, researchers are able to overcome shortcomings inherent in individual methods while enhancing the validity and reliability of their research findings. Mixed methods are commonly used in cross-sectional studies – to answer research questions, and/or explore contemporary social issues. However,...
Viet Nam
2018
Vídeo
AGROECOLOGY IN ACTION: The Women of Kampong Speu, Cambodia
In the villages of Samrong Tong, district of Kampong Speu province, Cambodia, women vegetable farmers are at the forefront of promoting agroecology.
In this short documentary, watch how the Women Organic Vegetable Producer Group, with the support of the Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC), are able to...
Cambodia
2018 - PAN Asia Pacific
Artículo de boletín informativo
Where have all the women gone?
Sex-segregated employment data in the recently released State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018 report points to the need for better and more standardised data collection. July 2018 witnessed the launch of ‘The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018’ (SOFIA 2018)—the flagship report of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Artículo de boletín informativo
Film: In Ockhi’s wake
30th November 2017. While scientific terms for it were still being confirmed and relayed on land, hundreds of fishworkers at sea were already hit by the violent terror of a deadly cyclonic storm. More than 300 lives were lost, either battling Ockhi, or in the deathly silence after—tragic conquerors of...
India
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Artículo de revista especializada
Bamboo Fiber and Sugarcane Skin as a Bio-Briquette Fuel
Bio-briquette fuel produced from waste agriculture residues
The present study deals with the issue of bio-briquette fuel produced from specific agriculture residues, namely bamboo fiber (BF) and sugarcane skin (SCS). Both materials originated from Thừa Thiên Huế province in central Vietnam and were subjected to analysis of their suitability for such a purpose. A densification process using...
2018 - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Libro
Potentially Important Food Plants of Nepal
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Nepal
2018
Libro
Potentially Important Food Plants of Nepal (Nepali)
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Nepal
2018
Vídeo
“Small-scale Aquaculture Extension Project” in Myanmar
The efforts of Department of Fisheries (DOF) to promote small-scale aquaculture as "Farmer to Farmer Extension Approach (FTF)" through the Project for Small-scale Aquaculture Extension for Promotion of Livelihood of Rural Communities in Central Dry Zone (SAEP in CDZ). The project activities are not only to promote farmer's aquaculture...
Myanmar
2018 - JICA
Artículo de revista especializada
Weather/Forecasting: A Fishers’ Forecaster
Action research by the University of Sussex is bringing fishermen and scientists together to track wind, and waves and save lives. Seen from the air, Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala state in south India, looks like a magic carpet – a long strip of golden sand separating a vast green...
India
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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